Advanced Training Partnership for Sustainable and Efficient Food Production

可持续和高效粮食生产高级培训合作伙伴

• 批准号: BB/I024364/1
• 负责人: Charles Newbold
• 金额: $ 324.96万
• 依托单位: Aberystwyth University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2012 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB%2FI024364%2F1
• 关键词: Advanced; Training; Partnership; Sustainable; Efficient

This Advanced Training Partnership (ATP) is a vehicle for research-led training focused on responding to the needs of industry. Feedback from stakeholders has been instrumental in determining its themes, subject areas and delivery mechanisms. Our goal is to increase the sustainability and efficiency of Pasture-Based Agriculture in the UK. This ATP will provide an accessible training base to allow relevant businesses meet the very real challenges of: -Living with the effects of climate change -Food security and securing the supply chain -Societal demands and meeting consumer expectations This ATP focuses on the overlap between the expertise of the delivery partners and the needs of industry. Thus, it will centre on increasing efficiency and reducing environmental impact within the extensive beef, sheep and dairy sector. We will deliver in four interlocking themes: -Sustainable Beef, Sheep and Dairy -Forage and Feed -Optimising Landuse -Complementary and Wider Issues The extensive ruminant sector is large and diverse; and this provides challenges in introducing innovation. Currently, the flow of technical information is largely the province of farm managers, agricultural suppliers' technical teams, vets, advisors for environmental schemes and supply chains attached to large retailers. Regular canvassing of this audience will allow responsive development within these themes. Our ATP has identified eight training pathways for development in the first year and anticipates development of new material to continue throughout its life. Our ATP comprises Delivery Partners [Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University (IBERS), College of Natural Sciences, Bangor University (BU) and the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB)]; and Management Partners [Lantra, Waitrose, The Bioscience Knowledge Transfer Network, Castell Howell Foods Ltd, BioTal Ltd, XL Vets and British Seed Houses]. In addition, we will work closely with Lantra Awards in developing CPD accreditation. Each partner brings a unique specialism to the mix: IBERS -Enhancing production -Sustainable farming systems -Sustainable animal production -Feed and forage crop improvement -Managing our natural environment Bangor -Plant Biochemistry & Biophysics -Conservation and Land Management -Silvo-pastoral Production Systems NIABTAG -Feed Crop Production -Soil Science The pooled expertise of these partners provides a compelling technology platform for sustainability pasture-based systems. Accessible Training All of the training will be at post-graduate level simultaneously accredited by a University; AND Lantra Awards (at level 7). This means that trainees can either utilise only the training components most pertinent to them and accumulate CPD credits along the way OR utilise the additional e-learning elements to pass complete university modules and use them to work, over time, towards an MSc, postgraduate certificate or diploma; or Professional Doctorate. We have developed a flexible model which will maximise accessibility and minimise impact on the working day. This consists of a form of 'blended-learning'. For example, each 20-credit pathway can be delivered as one 2-credit workshop and three 6-credit e-learning units, or combinations thereof. -Workshops will act as module entry and/or exit points, be for a maximum of two days; and focus on practical aspects of the learning pathway. -E-learning programmes, will play an important role in the consolidation and extension of the learning obtained in the workshops, that is accessible to those in full time employment. Delivery will include podcast lectures, e-group projects and discussion forums as well as the standard assignments and tutorials. -Secondments will be encouraged amongst those participating. These could be of particular benefit to those undertaking a research project for an MSc or Professional Doctorates.

这个高级培训伙伴关系（ATP）是一个以研究为主导的培训工具，专注于响应行业需求。利益攸关方的反馈有助于确定其主题、主题领域和执行机制。我们的目标是提高英国牧场农业的可持续性和效率。该ATP将提供一个可访问的培训基地，以使相关企业能够应对以下非常现实的挑战：-应对气候变化的影响-食品安全和确保供应链-社会需求和满足消费者期望。该ATP侧重于交付合作伙伴的专业知识与行业需求之间的重叠。因此，它将以提高效率和减少广泛的牛肉、羊和奶制品部门对环境的影响为中心。我们将在四个相互关联的主题：可持续的牛肉，羊和奶牛-饲料和饲料-优化土地利用-互补和更广泛的问题。广泛的反刍动物部门庞大而多样；这给引入创新带来了挑战。目前，技术信息的流动主要是农场经理、农业供应商的技术团队、兽医、环境计划顾问和大型零售商的供应链。定期对这些听众进行游说，将有助于在这些主题范围内作出相应的发展。我们的ATP已经确定了第一年的8种训练途径，并预计新材料的开发将在其整个生命周期中继续进行。我们的ATP包括交付合作伙伴[生物，环境和农村科学研究所，阿伯里斯特威斯大学（IBERS），自然科学学院，班戈大学（BU）和国家农业植物学研究所（NIAB）]；和管理合作伙伴[Lantra， Waitrose, The Bioscience Knowledge Transfer Network, Castell Howell Foods Ltd, BioTal Ltd, XL Vets and British Seed Houses]。此外，我们将与Lantra Awards紧密合作，发展持续专业进修认证。每个合作伙伴都带来了独特的专业知识：IBERS -提高产量-可持续农业系统-可持续动物生产-饲料和饲料作物改良-管理我们的自然环境班戈-植物生物化学和生物物理学-保护和土地管理- silvo -畜牧生产系统NIABTAG -饲料作物生产-土壤科学这些合作伙伴的专业知识汇集为可持续的牧场系统提供了一个引人注目的技术平台。无障碍培训所有培训均为研究生水平，同时由一所大学认可；和Lantra奖（7级）。这意味着学员可以只利用与他们最相关的培训内容并在此过程中积累CPD学分，也可以利用额外的电子学习元素来通过完整的大学模块，并利用它们来工作，随着时间的推移，获得硕士学位、研究生证书或文凭；或专业博士学位。我们开发了一种灵活的模式，以最大限度地提高可达性，并尽量减少对工作日的影响。这包括一种“混合学习”形式。例如，每个20学分的课程可以分为一个2学分的工作坊和三个6学分的在线学习单元，或两者的组合。-工作坊将作为模块的入口和/或出口点，最多为期两天；关注学习途径的实践方面。-电子学习计划，将在巩固和扩展在讲习班中获得的知识方面发挥重要作用，这些知识可供全职就业人员使用。交付将包括播客讲座，e-group项目和讨论论坛以及标准作业和教程。-鼓励参与人员借调。这对那些从事硕士或专业博士学位研究项目的人尤其有益。